[52497] trunk/dports/gnome/liboobs/Portfile

Rainer Müller raimue at macports.org
Thu Jun 18 14:47:17 PDT 2009


On 2009-06-18 22:15, Blair Zajac wrote:
> On Jun 18, 2009, at 1:12 PM, Daniel J. Luke wrote:
>> Perhaps base/ needs to be enhanced so that it keeps track of the  
>> libraries that a port links to (and what ports they are associated  
>> with)?
> 
> Yes, this should be a dynamic search for a port's depenencies, not  
> listing them in the Portfile.  rpmbuild does this and find's any .so's  
> a package requires.

I proposed such an option on the ideas page for Google Summer Of Code:
<http://trac.macports.org/wiki/SummerOfCode#depcheck>

As a side note, these tasks are not only meant to be implemented in
GSoC. The ideas are open to be taken outside the program and could be
implemented any time.

Rainer


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